Mr Krishna Boddu

Mr Krishna Boddu is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon based in Ipswich, focusing principally on hip and knee replacement surgery. Mr Boddu offers comprehensive care for hip and knee arthritis. Mr Boddu's special interests and areas of expertise include primary, complex, and revision hip arthroplasty/replacement; primary, complex, and revision knee arthroplasty/replacement; unicompartmental/partial knee replacement, as well as knee arthroscopy/key hole surgery. He performs smaller incision hip replacements and believes in accelerated rehab for the rapid recovery of his patients after the operation.

He obtained his postgraduate training in orthopaedic surgery at PGIMER, Chandigarh, one of the leading medical institutions in India. Mr Boddu's passion for orthopaedic surgery led him to conduct research in orthopaedic biomechanics at Imperial College, London. He underwent registrar training in trauma and orthopaedic surgery in Southeast London hospitals. He obtained fellowship training at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, Montreal, and King's College Hospital, London, specialising in primary and revision hip and knee arthroplasty surgery.

Mr Boddu worked as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the King’s College Hospital NHS Trust before moving to Ipswich. As a consultant, he performed over 600 hip and knee replacement operations with expected outcomes on the National Joint Registry. To date, he has performed more than 1,000 hip and knee replacements and has published 25 research publications.

Mr Boddu has a strong interest in research, publishing 24 research papers in peer-reviewed orthopaedic journals and presenting 35 papers at national and international orthopaedic meetings. He is a reviewer for the Bone and Joint Journal. He has been a faculty of the FRCS (Tr and Orth) courses for many years. His current research interest is in application of artificial intelligence technology in orthopaedics. As a co-founder of IMERA.AI, he explores AI's potential in transforming medical imaging analysis.